I mean, it’s not unwarranted. Kawhi was one of my favorite players to watch and now I’m not sure if I’ll ever see him play at max capacity again. A lot of people, myself included, 100% blame zaza for that.

Kawhi was already injured, multiple times, before the play with Zaza. And his current injury has nothing to do with last year's injury. How can you put "100% blame" on Zaza if Kawhi can't play max capacity again?

Because he hasn’t played consistently since the injury. And because it looked like he did it intentionally. I’m not saying it was for sure and I don’t think he intended to hurt him as badly as he did, but the replay is really incriminating

I'm arguing over the words you've said, and you've ignored both of the things I responded with.

Even if Zaza did it intentionally, Kawhi's ankle was already messed up, which makes that injury not 100% Zaza's fault. Maybe 50%? 90%? I don't know how much of the injury was Zaza's fault - it looks like Kawhi was already pretty messed up in the previous series and earlier in that game - but its definitely less than 100% Zaza's fault.

Kawhi's current injury isn't even on the same leg. Which makes this season's injury 0% related to Zaza.

Why do you think AI has no nuance? Everything about AI is represented statistically. It would be as simple as dynamically changing the threshold of what qualifies as a foul as the game goes on to meet a certain goal with regard to how many fouls are allowed. What wouldn't be a problem anymore is who gets foul calls and who doesn't at that threshold.

It would be as simple as dynamically changing the threshold of what qualifies as a foul

Easier said than done when you're dealing with what's essentially a computer vision problem as well. In the past few months a few papers accompanied with some videos surfaced detailing how several state-of-the-art image recognition algorithms could be tricked, which makes representing what that threshold would look like programmatically so much harder. Doing this tracking several moving entities (all the players and the ball) from several different angles adds even more complexity. Multiply that amount of work and memory required times how many features you need to track the threshold of.

I don't disagree that its a very difficult problem, or that we're anywhere near replacing refs with AI. My response was to the claims that AI has no nuance and both teams would foul out by halftime. Supposing that we could get an AI to replace the ref, it would be trivial to use the output of that AI to determine the threshold that should be called a foul. The AI would express whether a foul was committed as a percentage, and you could easily ignore all possible fouls below a certain percentage.

Looking for a pow ski for deep Tahoe days and a trip to Japan (Hakuba) in January. I'm 5'10", 160lb, pretty strong skier loving the hard in bounds terrain, currently own Line Supernatural 100mm waist 179cm length, which I loved for my 30 days at Squaw/Alpine last year. There were a few Tahoe days I wished for something more, and I've been told that I definitely need something more for Hakuba. Any recommendations? Not sure on length or width for a second ski that I won't put a lot of days on. I was thinking 115mm waist, 180cm length, but that sounds like a lot of ski. Prefer something I can buy used/old demos to save money.

Early season (mid December) is a bit of a gamble, because there may be little snow coverage. It was pretty bad last year in mid December, and January and February were wild months because the storms were so intense. March through May were amazing.

In general, I'd suggest February and March as the best months to go. All the terrain should be open, the crowds probably won't be too intense, and you'll have a good time.

My bad if you think I'm crossing a line. I was able to get a few bottles sent over last year, so I thought I'd try again. Nobody suggested they thought it was uncool. I can't fly over to get them myself, so I thought I'd try a favor.

Last season's demo skis w/ bindings, shipped here to the midwest from Vail and Beaver Creek, were going for $260 at a local preseason tent sale and all had received a full tune including base grind before being put on display. Some of the examples for sale had only been skied maybe a day or three. Two of my friends bought some while I scored some new boots.

Hey! I got that automatic message on Facebook. I still sent a message to them (in Spanish) and this is what the response was (translated from Spanish)

Hello name, we apologize for the delay on our answer. The thing is we have a lot of booking requests and so it's taking us 48-72 hours to reply. I'm going to check your booking request right now and you'll have an answer throughout the day.
Have a good day.

Should I replace my demo bindings with regular bindings? Last year I bought used demo skis on ebay (Line Supernatural 100s) with demo bindings and they treated me very well for the 30 days I spent on them. I'm in the market for new boots this year, going to see a boot fitter soon, but I'm also wondering where else I should be upgrading, and I thought maybe new bindings might be worth exploring. I'll definitely be talking to the boot fitter about this, but I wanted to do a little homework before I get there.

What bindings are good on a Line Supernatural 100 for someone who spends most of their time off piste at Squaw?

What are the demo bindings? It used to be the case that the answer to this was pretty easy, yes upgrade them. But a lot of the issues with demo bindings have been removed in the newer iterations of them. It really depends on the condition and model of the binding, but it's probably not going to be worth the extra cost. If you've already noticed performance issues (movement in the heel piece can be common) then go for it, but if they're not bothering you I wouldn't bother. If you do go for new ones you just need to choose the offering from any of the reputable brands in the correct DIN range, which for most skiers is going to be up to a 12 or 13. Tyrolia Aaatack, Salomon STH2 or Warden and Look Pivots are what I'd recommend.

I don't know the model offhand, I think they're Markers from 2015. They do seem alright most of the time, but I don't have a good benchmark for good bindings. I did notice a few times where a ski popped off while I was still upright, which caused me to fall, when I didn't think it should have popped off.

The trouble, is that thinking about new boots and new bindings makes me think maybe I should just get new skis while I'm at it....

Been skiing east coast my entire life and I have the 2009 k2 apache recon skis. Will they do fine out west in Tahoes mountains? Or should I look for a wider ski before the season starts? 119cm at tip width, 78cm at waist.

BTW its mm not cm. Your 78mm will do fine on groomed stuff in Tahoe, but most of the fun is in blasting around wherever you feel like rather than just staying on the groomed spaces, and for that you'll probably want something wider. I ride 100mm right now, and am considering going up to 110 or 120 in my next purchase.

In town as a tourist and want to see the game tonight - whats the best way to get two tickets? I'm not interested in spending hundreds, just something cheap, should I just show up to the main ticket office or buy online or is there some better way?

Caching objects will always be a performance win over recreating new objects, but the real wins aren't going to be when wrapping window, but rather when wrapping some selector that needs to traverse the entire DOM. The jQuery constructor can be passed many things, but most common are elements or selectors. Elements won't have to do any complicated tree traversing, but selectors will, so always cache those unless you know you're modifying that collection of elements in the DOM.

Did a little digging earlier, it looks like JQuery actually guard clauses against window wrapping. If the object getting passed in is window it uses an internally cached version. So there's still some logic using a reference to $(window) can help avoid but it's definitely not as heavy as other selectors.

In all, it seems like keeping it in a variable is a good way to ensure the best performance and doesn't have any downsides. It probably improves readability too.

The problem, of course, is when your DOM is changing due to some user event. $('.button') might return 4 button elements with class="button" at some point, but after adding another button it returns 5 buttons. Your cached variable will be out of date, and you'll need to re-select.

Were no angels, but copy write laws mean nothing to them, they poach animals to extinction for one part of thier anatomy, and they need to put suicide nets around thier factory roofs. You think of the worst OSHA working condition in the US then look for the worst in China and see.

Our biggest evil is that we know this and buy all thier cheap garbage anyway.

Your anecdote about suicide nets is absolutely legitimate, but we have just as serious problems. As for animals, our factory farms are pure evil and we still buy the cheapest meats in quantities that destroy our own environment. Thats just one of the dozens of ways we destroy our own environment. Oil, coal, gas... constant domestic destruction. If we were smart we'd offshore our destruction, but we barely do. And even if we did, its still evil.

I hate the tram, so I'd take Squaw One to Siberia to Gold Coast and ride the ridge over to Silverado, or the Funitel to Gold Coast to the ridge. Silverado hasn't opened yet so anyone's guess if it is in a week. Broken Arrow opened this weekend and I assume it'll stay open, which is some expert terrain that I've never been on.

Yeah, tram isn't slow but there is only one every 15 minutes I think, so its usually packed, and it just leads to mostly beginner areas. Unless you're heading to Silverado, there is nothing interesting to ski on right away without taking another lift so I typically try to take Squaw one and then Headwall or Siberia to start my day and then traverse over to Silverado after I'm warmed up. Funitel is usually a good bet but often is a long wait.

I think his point was that the application will likely be automating or helping the efficiency of some process. If you can do this with humans working their asses off and probably using excel to keep track of shit, maybe you can prove the market exists without $50k and an app.

Most people go app first and then test market, and they'll usually fail because there is no market. If you prove the market, you'll have no trouble getting funding.